Sounds like the theme just doesn’t enable bbPress to hook in and take care of things. You’ll want to talk to Woo about bbPress compatibility. Tell them to ping me (here is fine) if they have questions.

Thanks very much for the super-quick answer. Yeah, I already hedged and asked them there at the same time since I couldn’t tell whether it was the new bbpress RC or the new Canvas release. I also think Canvas is a little more likely since v5 is a big overhaul — I’ll let them know they can ping you.

Woo’s word on it is that it isn’t a bug, it’s a theming issue for me to fix. This surprises me but I’d like to just work around it at this point.

How do I create a child theme for bbpress 2.1 that lets me address the problem that the forum index, user pages and tag pages are all displayed inside of a blog post excerpt loop with no live links or formatting?

The individual forums would work fine, but the main forum index was rendering what looked like a post excerpt, with everything jumbled into a single paragraph.

Solution was actually rather simple. If you are using a child-theme in Canvas (you ARE using a child-theme I hope?? 😉 ) simply make a copy of the content-page.php file from parent, and put it into your child-theme folder.

Next, change the entry div as shown, to modify the current conditional check to ALSO see if you are on a bbPress page. Without this extra bit, it assumes that you want the page to show the_excerpt() on every page other than single.php …. not true. We want full content on bbPress pages as well 😉

I’ve installed bbpress, created a couple of forums and – via the great info on this thread – created a page called “Boardroom”, into which I’ve inserted the “[bbp-forum-index]” shortcode. Hey presto, after much head scratching, I can now see a forum index on http://www.heavenlyz.com/boardroom/…woohoo 🙂

But, my next challenge is to be able to open one of the forums shown. Am struggling with this.

Because I am using the Nollie theme – I think – the parent/ child argument doesn’t apply, so am looking at changing the root page.php

Above, Lab says

Next, change the entry div as shown, to modify the current conditional check to ALSO see if you are on a bbPress page. Without this extra bit, it assumes that you want the page to show the_excerpt() on every page other than single.php …. not true. We want full content on bbPress pages as well

@orgspring – Is there any way you can provide me with the template and files you mentioned in the woo post? The person who created my webpage is the one who has the Woo account and now I can’t get into their support portal without login credentials to view this post and fix the problem. I’ve contacted them for help with no response.

the same problem with OptimizePress, is there anyone out there who can help me with this.. when I go to user profile page, they are displaying the content of the user account as an excerpt with the Continue Reading link which is linking to itself (user profile URL) .. are there any work around to this. Been sending email to Optimizepress but seems they are not interested to help me with this.

Can someone please assist I’m having issues using Canvas Theme and bbPress. My Canvas theme makes the forum index look like post excerpt. I’ve looked for solutions only to find outdated links I’ve also submitted a ticket to woothemes only to be told they do not support this issue. I’m using Canvas 5.9.8 and bbPress 2.5.7.